E-Leader, Krakow 2008 Culturally Responsive Teaching

Barely three-quarters of all high school students are graduating from high school in the United States. This has summoned a call for culturally responsive teaching! Included in an examination of the development of cultural awareness into state driven curriculums is the look at how leaders in education can foster success for a culture that often goes unnoticed: the culture of the learning disabled! The learning disabled student often goes undetected after years of struggling to learn, including frustration with state adapted curriculum geared for students with average capabilities. Leaders in education MUST understand the process that allows learning disabled students to qualify for special education and develop strategies and techniques to address those students that often drop out of school because of a lack of culturally responsive teaching which incorporates attention to their unique needs